Notion Ink excited folks when it said that the Adamn could “easily get 15 hours from the device,” but Rohan Shravan has taken to the company blog to clarify those statements.

The 15 hours of battery ife statement referred strictly to “normal” use, and what clarifies as normal differs from person to person. For Shravan, “normal” does not include the power-sucking activities that make tablets an exciting device: HD video playback, viewing Flash videos, or using the camera, among other things.

Notion has posted a breakdown of activity that can kill your battery in as little as 6 hours:

Play 1080P continuously with full brightness and at full volume (displayed as 1024 on Adam and not via HDMI to TV) (no idle time) (Adam has BIG speakers)

Play YouTube Flash videos on Wi-Fi or 3G network (no idle time)

Use Streaming 3D maps on 3G network with GPS

Record HD Video and stream it over the Wi-fi networks

Play an augmented reality 3D game with camera input over the network (wi-fi of 3G)

No one should be surprised by this. We’ve all dealt with laptops or phones claiming to last 5 hours, only to discover that’s with brightness set to zero and doing nothing but the most basic of features. It still appears – on paper at least – that the Atom will perform adequately.

I look forward to testing battery power in person. Long before anyone carred about a Galaxy Tab or Nook Color, Notion Ink’s Adam prototype was the Android tablet everyone had their eye on. But after months of waiting for a solid release date and being teased with updates, folks are still wondering when Adam will get it’s day in the sun.

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It almost looks like the guys missed their window of opportunity. It's not exactly clear what they are going to do about Samsung Galaxy Tab and presumably quite a few other devices that will hit us soon after Gingerbread is released. They are not doing great spec-wise too. Having a 10 inch screen is nice but at 1024×600 resolution the pixel density – and screen clarity – becomes quite low. 1080p on a 600-line screen? Sounds like a marketing gimmick. The guys had to jump through hoops to make Android work on something it was not designed for. It's just sad they couldn't make it in time. Borys Burnayev actioncomplete.com GTD for Android and Web My recent post AC for Web Pro Released- Features Visual Integration with Google Calendar- 2- and 4-column Layouts- Secure Communication

It takes about a year for a product be developed, so CES 2011 would be a normal launch time. The company did have two setbacks to deal with first of all the Tegra 2 chipset had months of delay and secondly the company had some funding problems, both problems have been solved and the Adam seems to be well on track since (it's expected that 200 units will be available for developers the first half of november and it expected the hit the FCC around the same time. Spec wise there is nothing comparable on the market today, the screen resolution is perfect for a 16:9 screen this size and comparable with other 9/10 inch tablets and laptops but the big difference is that this display is fully readable in sunlight (while in reflective mode it's is only BW but it then features 3 times the normal resolution) AFAIK there is no production display this size that does 1080p but this Adam can show off you're HD video in it's full glory using HDMI